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Coromandel corrugated iron home breaks with convention
This home by Herbst Architects combines rusty allusions to local farm buildings with a proudly contemporary form.
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This Home of the Year 2016 winner by Herbst Architects is a unique Coromandel home inspired by rustic farm sheds. The design features a striking upper level clad in recycled rusty corrugated iron, creating a solid, bunker-like form described as "agrarian brutalism."
Responding to the owners' brief for a humble home with aged character, the architects used recycled materials to create a "visceral" house that offers an intense connection to the surrounding landscape and marks a bold new direction.
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